Quotes about Possession
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
— Martin Luther
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
— Martin Luther
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— John Donne
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
— Victor Hugo
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
— John Lennon
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
— Frank Sinatra
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
— Abraham Lincoln
Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.
— Will Rogers